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Name: ANDERSSEN, Jens Joergen Bull
Birth Date: 1860 Alesund, Norway
Death Date: 1935 Elverum, Norway
Nationality: Norwegian
First Date: 1894
Last Date: 1905
Profession: Ass. Collector, Tanaland, 1895/1900. Collector Tanaland May 2nd 1900; Acting Sub. Commissioner, Tanaland, in 1902.
Area: Tanaland, EAHB 1905 Collector, Kipini, Lamu, EAHB 1904 Kipini
Married: In Zanzibar 22.9.1898 Julia Ness (Naess, Swedish, formerly living in Bloomsbury, London)
Book Reference: Gillett, EAHB 1905, EAS, North, EA Diary 1903, EAHB 1906, EA Diary 1902, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907, Web, Gazette
General Information:
North - Trader & Engineer; formerly in Madagascar; Agent for Norwegian Government Trading Co. at Lamu. Later Asst. Collector Lamu 1899; District Officer & Collector Tana River 1900; Acting Sub-Commissioner Tanaland 1902 Admitted to hospital at Mombasa with fever in Jan 1897 and dep. From hospital for England on 5 months sick leave 28-3-1897. Port Durnford June 1899; Listed as Collector Tana River 1-4-1904; '… a trustworthy and painstaking officer' (Hardinge, FO 107)
EAHB 1906 - Assistant Collector, Tanaland, EA Protectorate, October 28th 1895; Collector, Tanaland, May 2nd 1900; Acting Sub-Commissioner, Tanaland, February 1st to April 16th 1902.
North - Naturalised British subject 24-2-1905; Collector Tana River District, dep. Mombasa for Europe on leave with wife, both ill 24-12-1905; Retired; 'A trustworthy and painstaking officer' (Sir Andrew Hardinge, FO 107)
EA Diary 1902 - Listed as District Officer
EA Diary 1903 - Assistant Collector, EA Protectorate, October 28 1895; Collector May 2 1900; Acting Sub-Commissioner, Tanaland Feb1 to April 16 1902
EAHB 1907 - Resigned during 1906
Web - Naturalisations published in the Jewish Chronicle between 1902 and 1906 - Andersen Jens Jorgen East African Protectorate, Lamu Norway Apr-05 Passengers on 'Debora' - Knud Bang's family came from Skaret as did Jens Jorgen (Bull) Anderssen. His father was consul Joakim Anderssen, a pioneer in fishing, business and shipping trade in Alesund and Norway. In 1876 in America Joakim purchased a pair of telephone apparatus from Alexander Graham Bell which he gave to his son Jens. These were the first telephones in Europe.
Gazette 15/10/1906 - resigned as a Collector from July 23 1906
The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa.
T.R.H. Cashmore, 'Your Obedient Servant' typescript in Bodleian Library Mss Afr.s.1034 In 1899 he complained of the lack of consideration on the part of the Church Missionary Society in having a graveyard outside his bungalow: 'From a personal point of view it is extremely nasty to be a spectator from one's veranda of bodies uncoffined being interred during your meal hour in the morning.'